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Linda Conley (guest)
Homemaker/Reader , OR:

Regarding Holder and torture: The story for most Americans is a familiar one. Neville Chamberlain returns from his meeting with Hitler in 1938 and stands at the Croyton Airport while waving a paper indicating that paper brought with it the promise of piece from Hitler himself. "For the second time in history," he declared, "a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour." He then told everyone to go home and have a nice, quiet sleep. Frankly, I for one, fear this new administration of appeasement.

I don't know if I will sleep well knowing the Attorney General does not believe in advanced interrogation techniques. The doves on the left constantly display a very raw form of overt hypocrisy and I am tired of it. No waterboarding even if our country is being threatened by those who want us dead, and yet, display little or no concern or outrage over the beheadings and mutiliations the enemy inflicts among our countrymen. And what about the left's most blatant hypocrisy? How little they suddenly care and turn a blind eye to extreme torture when they refuse to say no to the horrors of a partial birth. Isn't the latter the absolute worst form of torture? The most innocent among us allowed to have its skull bashed in? Obama talks about instituting the Freedom of Choice Act that will repeal any legislation on abortion including of course the ban on partial birth abortion. The left really need to spread their love of peace and hatred of torture to the smallest and the most innocent among us.

Rory Davenport (guest)
Public Affairs Executive , DC:

Assuming that the new administration will close Gitmo, would the Obama Administration support affording legal rights to detainees that are shipped to detention facilities in other countries? Or, would the incoming Adminstration use the cover of those other countries legal systems to avoid having to release them or grant them access to our legal system?

Phil Gonzalez (guest)
retired , TX:

Gonzalez was forced to resign because he was labeled a crony of President Bush. The office of Attorney General is independent of the President because the President does have his own lawyers, but why didn't you stand up to former President Bill Clinton when the pardon of Marc Rich came across his desk.

Edward Stroligo (guest)
Writer , NY:

To respond to Mr. Fein's rather extreme contention that the President should not be able to use military force without the statutory approval of Congress, I suggest he and everyone else take a look at this: http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/warpowers925.htm . It certainly provides plenty of evidence to show that the Founding Fathers (even some of those he listed) took a broad view of the President's war-making powers.
One may have grounds to disagree with the cited piece as to the total extent of the President's unilateral war-making power. One can argue whether he should have as much as he does. But it is silly to argue that he doesn't or shouldn't have any without prior Congressional approval. That flies in the face of American history. If Congress were obliterated by a nuclear bomb, just what is the President supposed to do next?

Stefan Saal (guest)
sculptor , NH:

"What are your views on the independence of the Department of Justice, and how do you intend to implement these views?"

Edward Stroligo (guest)
Writer , NY:

Mr. Holder, in this job, the law is often more your boss than the President. When do you think you have to say "No" to a President, and why? Have you ever said "No" to a President, and why?
P.S. Not knowing unusual tax law is one thing for Mr. Geithner. Requesting and getting extra money to pay taxes you didn't pay raises the bar considerably.

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